Recent content by colt

There is more than one "law" in Ontario. The Human Rights Code is of equal weight to the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006. The HRC requires reasonable efforts to be made to accomodate religious beliefs, practices, etc. As an impartial tribunal has concluded he did not, in fact, comply with the law.

+1. There is not a single part of that story that rings true.

I know you are being sarcastic but, in fact, that is actually exactly what happens. Evidence - I was educated in the Separate School System. We were taught that marriage was sacred and divorce and pre-marital sex were sins against God. And not a single person I went to school with ever had...

Is there such a thing as face value for individual game tickets? I thought they were purchased as a package that didn't detail the individual price of each ticket. By very definition of the term you are using, if there was a "face" value it would be printed on the FACE of the ticket. If there...

You can also tell she had been well instructed by the fact that she kept her finger well away from the trigger until she was actually ready to shoot.

Ditto. I can reach in my cabinet and pull out probably half a dozen files where the accused is a female in near identical circumstances.

Have you seen recent tweets from Brett Lawrie? Everyone's experience is different but he said it was suggested to him at the start of this season to start wearing orthotics. He had never used them before and had no noticeable foot or back problems. He just accepte that orthotics would optimize...

Re #1. A witness exclusion order is standard. So the witnesses will not be allowed to be in the Court until they have testified. Dirkd101 is right that the defendant will not be ordered out of the courtroom. However, the deputy judge will expect the owner to give his evidence first, without the...

Not sure how that relates in any way to my post about WSIB. That is great for employees of your company but is also extremely rare. Also extremely rare for company life insurance policies to only cover someone in the event of a work related death. Most life insurance policies that form part of a...

The Court did not put the worth of the worker's life at $400,000.00. The Court looked at the breach of Health and Safety laws and fined the company. If a person is convicted of careless driving that results in a death and pays a $5,000 fine - the Court is not putting the value of the...

I am not familiar with the case you are speaking about but workplace deaths represent another perversion of Canadian law. In that case the $400,000 fine would certainly not go to the family, it was a fine, and just as any Highway Traffic Act fine (ie speeding ticket) it would be paid to the...

Assessment of damages (i.e., how much to award a victim as financial compensation for losses suffered) is a topic that occupies entire courses at law school. It is patently ridiculous to say "I found a case where a jury awarded someone $3.2 million" and think it has any relevance to the present...

The Statement of Claim was apparently filed in April. It is now being fed to media (was part of the public record the moment it was filed but someone would have had to go digging to find it). I expect the Neville family is frustrated Muzzo's and their insurers have not settled and this may well...

Highly unlikely the Muzzo family, or anyone else, ever pays anywhere close to $22 million dollars in this matter. Not sure what the lawyer was trying to accomplish by claiming that amount of damages ... besides cheap publicity.

How do you get around the self crimination issue? Police have a statutory duty to keep notes and are compelled by their position and Police Services Act to give testimony in court. However, with respect to criminal or quasi criminal prosecutions against them they are still entitled to be free of...